Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing InstructionIn Getting Restless, Nancy Welch asks compositionists to rethink what they mean by "revision," urging them to examine long-held beliefs about teacher-student relations and writing practices. Drawing primarily on feminist and psychoanalytic theories, she considers how revision can be redefined as a process of disorientation: an act of restlessness with received meanings, familiar relationships, and disciplinary or generic boundaries, a practice of intervening in the meanings and identifications of one's text and one's life. |
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... writes : The fire Soul shadows is what scared me Blue I seem never To get in
the right position Today I'm also reading a book by feminist cultural critic Sheila
Rowbotham ( 1973 ) who describes her difficulty with getting into the right
position ...
... writes : The fire Soul shadows is what scared me Blue I seem never To get in
the right position Today I'm also reading a book by feminist cultural critic Sheila
Rowbotham ( 1973 ) who describes her difficulty with getting into the right
position ...
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Fiction writer Laura Kalpakian ( 1991 ) describes in an essay how she sat in a
trailer at three o'clock in the morning beside her sleeping brother and the bucket
he'd just thrown up in , sat there on a wobbly , three - legged stool and read for
the ...
Fiction writer Laura Kalpakian ( 1991 ) describes in an essay how she sat in a
trailer at three o'clock in the morning beside her sleeping brother and the bucket
he'd just thrown up in , sat there on a wobbly , three - legged stool and read for
the ...
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Similarly , when writing center practitioners define their work against that of the
classroom , describing classrooms as normative mass education , as sites of
abusive and coercive ( teacher ) authority , as always and only about conformism
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Similarly , when writing center practitioners define their work against that of the
classroom , describing classrooms as normative mass education , as sites of
abusive and coercive ( teacher ) authority , as always and only about conformism
...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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| Title | Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction Cross currents CrossCurrents (Portsmouth, N.H.) Crosscurrents : New Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition Woman in History Series |
| Author | Nancy Welch |
| Publisher | Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0867094001, 9780867094008 |
| Length | 198 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing |
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